December 24, 2013:
December 24, 2013:
Today our Frizzy (FRIZZANTE FURIOSO GRIS de la Maison du Garde-Barrière) celebrates his 13th birthday. We know this will be his last birthday and his last Christmas as he is already very week ...... mainly caused by arthritis in one of his ellbows. But as he is still walking around and lively, grabbing his toys from time to time, we are not yet ready to let the boy go to the other side of the Rainbow Bridge. A very heartfellt Happy Birthday to the very last kid out of our unique and still so very much missed Yazoo (Sél. LOULOU des Cèdres de la Montagne Noire, CGC). May we be owned by him for some more nice weeks.
October 26, 2013:
Great news from Germany: Needy (Caipirinha's NEEDLESS 2SAY) today - on the Austrian National Day - gave birth to her first puppies - 4 males and 1 female.
Huge congratulations to her owner and our friend Anne (kennel von Shinbashi). All agog with curiosity and interest we will follow the growing up of the small ones, and maybe there will be a grandchild out of our Ula (Multi-Champ. Family Song's ULA) and our Keanu (Multi-Champ WL THE DEVILS ADVOCATE) for us. All the very best for Needy and her sweet puppies!
October 20, 2013:
A candle has been lit for Arwa (ARWA Betkin dvor) ...... it would be her birthday ......
October 4, 2013:
4 October - in Austria "celebrated" as World Animal Welfare Day: On this day in 1997 our Briard singleton puppy BATIDA DE COCO de la Maison du Garde-Barrière was born. This B litter of our kennel was a "special litter": 2100 miles to the stud and back home, c-section on day 65, dam spayed from the vet at the c-section without our knowledge, full stud fee collected by the stud owner, ...... but for us it was still a "win" because Batida was the very first grey (born black) puppy in Austrian Briard breeding history.
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Batida had a great life at dear friends of us who often told and showed us that this girl was highly intelligent: she taught the owner how to go tracking, she climbed up AND DOWN spiral stair cases, ...... They always said as a singleton she got the intelligence of the amount of pups in a full litter. She had a wonderful life full of joy, fun and love - for some years together with her mother Arwa B. and a boy of our E litter, and finally alone for 5 years (after her dam had passed in August 2003 and her friend Einstein in September 2006). On August 18, 2011, at the age of nearly 14 years she passed and left a big hole in the hearts of her owners and her breeders. A candle has been lit in memory of this special Briard girl.
October 1, 2013:
It would be the birthday of our very first Briard Sándor (Rec. Champ. SÁNDOR von Anitzberg) ...... A candle has been lit in memory of a great family member on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge.
September 30, 2013:
We had show success again with one of our offspring boys: On September 28, Maverick (Multi-Champ. Caipirinha's NEED 4SPEED) attended the CACIB show in Arad/Romania, where he went out of the ring with Exc. 1, CAC, CACIB, BOB and being Transilvania Winner 2013 ...... and he finished his third championship. Our boy is now also Beauty Champion of Romania. Thanks a lot to judge Katalin Kiss for these great results and for the photo she sent us.
At the club show and the second CACIB show Maverick left the ring each time with Exc. 2 Res. CAC.
It was once again a great weekend with our friends Melinda, Alina and Marius as well as new friends, with who we had a great time and lots of fun. Alina had made a reservation for all of us in a beautiful hotel where dogs were welcome, were we had enough grass area for walking the dogs, and where we were served gorgeous specialties of the country each evening. We are very much looking forward to our next coming together.
September 7, 2013:
Great show success of one of the offspring from here: Caipirinha's NEEDLESS 2SAY "Needy" was CAC Club, CAC VDH, CACIB, BOS and Winner Rostock at the international show in Rostock/Germany. Congratulations to her owner Annerose Demski and thanks for the pretty collage she made after that success.
August 30, 2013:
Summer, great weather, time for some snapshots. The enormous activity of Sterling (Champ. Daretobebares STERLING SILVER) can be seen in the Photo Gallery.
August 7, 2013:
It would be Yazoo's (Sél. LOULOU des Cèdres de la Montagne Noire, CGC) birthday ...... we have lit a candle ......
July 14 & 31, 2013:
Two birthdays: On 14 July Fidji (FIDJII BLUE Dandy mate) was 6 years and on 31 July Zoey (Daretobebares FLY ME TO THE MOON) turned 5 years. Happy Birthday to our girls
July 29, 2013:
We are back home from a very successful show weekend in Hungary. On July 27/28 two of our dogs were shown at the double CACIB shows in Debrecen, this time owner handled resp. breeder/owner handled. Maverick (Champ. Caipirinha's NEED 4SPEED) gained Exc. 1, CAC, CACIB and BOB on the first day and on the second day he got Exc. 1, CAC, CACIB and BOS. We have another Champion now, the boy finished Hungary. It is his second Championship after having been shown only 10 times. Needless to say that we are mighty about the success of our own bred boy.
Memy (Multi-Champ. INCREDIBLE ME von Shinbashi) got Exc. 1, CAC and Res. CACIB on both days and finished her Hungarian Championship already on the first day. This is her 5th title at the age of 2 years and 4 months.
Thanks to the honorable judges Lokodi Zsolt and Christian Stefanescu for the great results.
And outside of the show rings it was one of the nicest show weekends this year, spent with dear Melinda and some great new friends. Nice chats, great dinner and a funny time. Hopefully we can repeat this soon.
July 19, 2013:
A candle has been lit for our never forgotten Zabou (ALOAZABOU du Noble Nid) ...... it is 4 years today that she left to the other side of the Rainbow Bridge ...... she is so very much missed ......
July 12, 2013:
Today our Courage (Champ. KAHLUA de la Maison du Garde-Barrière) celebrates her 7th birthday. Best wishes to our furry girl, which will be spoiled very much today. Of course we send also very happy birthday wishes to her brother and sisters, our K litter.
July 4, 2013:
Yesterday we have taken some photos of both our young males Macho (Caipirinha's ONE MAN STANDING) and Gatsby (Caipirinha's ONE OFHIS OWN). Some of these pictures are now in the Photo Gallery.
June 7, 2013:
Today is the 7th birthday of our Sterling (Champ. Daretobebares STERLING SILVER), dam of our O litter. Happy Birthday!!!
May 30, 2013:
After 16 great days in the USA I am back again. The joy about my arrival after more than two week of all the 4-pawed family members was big.
On May 13, I had arrived in New Orleans at my friend Tiffany, who had invited me to spend my holiday with her in her home. My surprise arrival gift was the musical Wicked already on May 14 - awesome and unforgettable. I was also spoiled with nail studio and hair dresser on May 14 and 15.
On May 16, Tiffany and I were off from New Orleans via Houston to the National of the American Chinese Crested Club to Oklahoma City. Finally I could get to know long time internet friends personally, especially Terry (We Say It In Stitches and the first owner of our Keanu) and her husband David, Theresa (the breeder of Secret) and her husband Harry, Linda (Reil's Texas Cresteds), Echo, Nancy (Puttin' On The Dog Designs & We Say It In Stitches), Erin (Presenting Chinese Cresteds), Michele (Gracieux Chinese Crested), Tammy (she was one of Keanu's professional handlers), Bev (Dokkum Cresteds) and her husband Gary and some more.
It was also nice for me to get to know the dogs of all these friends, respectively some of them. Especially Theresa's dogs Little T. (Secret's sire), Mimi and Ring-A-Ding thrilled me, and of course the sweet little poodle Tator with her heart like a lion, but the others are of course also great. Little T. is so similar to Keanu and Ring-A-Ding could be a litter mate to Maverick. The girl which Echo had with her, Insoo, is a real great personality, Erin's Juicy (also bred by Theresa) is a pretty girl and from TerryRemy the Chihuahua is dear to my heart. But I could also meet friends which I had already got to know in 2009 and 2010: Nancy, Deb, Martha, Mercedes, Sandra, ...... We spent four great days together and had an awesome time besides chatting about our dogs. And of course some things have been bought which we cannot get here. I'm especially grateful for the cover which Nancy made for our show crate:
As always after USA visits I needed a second suitcase for going home. 
I was very proud to attend the win of the Best In Show girl: she is a daughter of Steel (Champ. Silver Bluff STEEL KING LEGACY, SOM) who lives with us. Already a day prior to our arrival this girl was Winner of the Top 20. Even though this female was born while Steel did not yet live with us, the wins of Trinity have touched me very much, and it was great to get to know her owners and her professional handler. From ACCC I also got the diploma for the title Sire Of Merit (SOM) of Steel, which he gained 2010 when he was already in Austria. Thanks to Susan Miller who organized that.
The few days with great friends were over too fast and on May 20, Tiffany and I flew back to New Orleans (with some trouble and major delay because of the terrible tornado in the afternoon). I could spend some great summer days there and got to know some of Tiffany's family members (I do know her mother Jackie already since 2010). Furthermore, I attended my first boat tour, visited the zoo, had sight seeing tour through New Orleans and neighborhood as well as visited some of the world famous cemeteries in New Orleans. The food during all the time was just wonderful, and for the first time in my life I had crawfish and crabs.
A dream also came true ...... a new tattoo ...... of one having been bred here ...... Maverick (Champ. Caipirinha's NEED 4SPEED). Kenny Holland from Downtown Tattoos in New Orleans is an awesome artist and I am forever grateful for his 4 hours "work". The tattoo is really perfect and a mirror picture of the photo which I had with me as a template.
During being absent there were two birthdays at home: Voodoo (Champ. Family Song's VOODOO) was eight years on May 21 and Maverick turned two years on May 26 - like his sibbling Tanner in Canada and Needy & Toulouse in Germany. Thank internet the birthday greetings were sent even over that distance in time. 
As always holiday is over way too fast and on 28 May, New Orleans local time 7:50 a.m. my trip back home started via Detroit to New York, und from there local time 5:40 p.m. direction Vienna, where I arrived May 29 in the morning before 8 a.m.
I thank Tiffany and her partner Larry for the indescribable great hospitality and for everything they did for and with me. And thanks to Theresa, Harry, Terry, David, Echo, Nancy and Erin for the great time I could spend with them. We really have to rerun this.
May 9, 2013:
We placed advertisements in the Best In Show Magazine Spring 2013. We are thrilled about the outcome, and of course we are looking forward to receive this issue. In this place a heartfelt thank you to the breeder Annerose Demski for sponsoring Memy's advertisement!
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May 7, 2013:
Since today in the evening Maverick (Champ. Caipirinha's NEED 4SPEED) is back from his show marathon in Zadar/HR (4 international shows), and we are very pleased with the results: 1st day Exc. 3, 2nd day BOB (out of 26 dogs) and short listed in the group, 3rd day BOB (out of 26 dogs), and 4th day Res. CAC. Thanks to Dorka for the handling and the care over the past 12 days.
There are some new photos in the Photo Gallery.
May 5, 2013:
At the occasion of the show event in Zadar/HR we arranged for a professional photo shooting of both our dogs there. On 3 May some beautiful pics were taken which are now in the Photo Gallery: You can see them in the album Maverick Photo Session and Memy Photo Session. Thanks a lot to the wonderful photographer Jovana Danilovic and to our friends Dorka and Bence for the effort - you all did an awesome job!
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May 4, 2013:
Today the Austrian Toy Breed Club published the awards for the competition "Best Show Dog 2012" and we can be so very proud about the achievements for two of our dogs: Memy (Multi-Champ. INDREDIBLE ME von Shinbashi) is really LIVING UP TO HER NAME. In her very first show season she reached the top of the ladder to success out of intermediate class and was awarded Best Show Dog Toy Breeds 2012 (out of 12 breeds) and is No. 1 Chinese Crested Austria 2012. Thanks so much to my wonderful handler Dorka who made all this possible, and thanks of course to all the judges for their wonderful ratings of this little girl. Thanks also to her breeder Annerose Demski for the trust to give us this stunning girl.
Our wonderful boy Keanu (Multi-Champ. WL THE DEVILS ADVOCATE) was awarded Second Best Show Dog Toy Breeds 2012 and No. 2 Chinese Crested Austria 2012. Also this was only possible with Dorka, and also here thanks to all the judges for their awards for this stunning boy.
April 22, 2013:
We have lit a candle again ...... it would be the birthday of our never forgotten Arwa Z. (ARWA Zevar, SchH1) ......
April 15, 2013:
It is three years today that our wonderful girl Oh-Lala (Sél. OH-LALA des Monts d'en Crauzille) left to he other side of the Rainbow Bridge. In memory we have lit a candle.
April 13, 2013:
With a heavy heart we had to say good-bye to sweet rescue boy Sambo today (SAMBO de la Chaume du Bois Dieu) and let him go to the other side of the Rainbow Bridge ...... only 5 days after his 12th birthday. His legs did not want to carry him any longer, and he did not respond to the pain killers any more. How sad that we could not give him some more nice years in his new home. It was just nearly a year that he could live with us and the dog crew. Wish we could have done more. A candle has been lit.
April 8, 2013:
Our Briard G litter (Briards de la Maison du Garde-Barrière) is 11 years today: Happy Birthday to Lara (Gucci's Surprise), Aysha (G'Aysha Blonde) and Bisou (Gros Bisou). We wish them all the very best, especially healthiness. For Gustl (Gus Gillespie), Lexi (Gaultier's Galaxie) and Graffiti Snap we have lit a candle in memory.
And it is the 12th birthday of our rescue boy Sambo's (SAMBO de la Chaume du Bois Dieu). He is already very tired. A heartfeld Happy Birthday to the sweet boy.
March 21, 2013:
We celebrate the next birthday: Our sweet Memy (Multi-Champ. INCREDIBLE ME von Shinbashi) is 2 years today. A heartfelt HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our stunning little girl living up to her name.
February 12, 2013:
Three birthdays to celebrate these days: On February 8, our O litter was one year. Happy Birthday to Macho, Gatsby, Esprit, Freya, Story, Minu and Sly. Then Ula (Multi-Champ. Family Song's ULA) celebrated her 8th birthday on February 11. All the very best to our great girl! And today Secret (Explicit's SINS AND SECRETS FOR CAIPIRINHA'S) is one year. Heartfelt wishes to our funny mouse.
January 31, 2013:
It is 19 years ago that our very first litter - Briards A litter de la Maison du Garde-Barrière - was born.
January 24, 2013:
We celebrate the next birthday: Jaris (HAPPY JARIS Dandy mate), dam of our M litter, is 5 years today. All the very best little lady.
And: there are some new pictures of Secret (Explicit's SINS AND SECRETS FOR CAIPIRINHA'S) in the Photo Gallery.
January 23, 2013:
We have lit a candle ...... it would be Oh-Lala's (Sél. OH-LALA des Monts d'en Crauzille) birthday ...... she is so very much missed ......
January 9/10, 2013:
The first birhdays of this year: Today, 01/09/2013 our Naomi (DÉJA VU NAOMII Dandy mate) celebrates her 6th birthday. Happy Birthday sweet mouse!!! And tomorrow, 01/10/2013, our L litter is 4 years and our M litter 3 years. All the very best for the 12 "kids" from here.
January 1, 2013:
The News 2012 have been put to the archives.